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Re: Playmobil shelf life
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Wed, 4 Oct 2000 20:53:11 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, David Eaton writes:
> I think someone pointed out that some of Playmobile's sets are
> available for as much as a 10 year span?
Even longer. It's rare, but one current example is 3329, a knight on a purple-
dressed horse with two footmen. I first noticed it in 1989. It's still around in
2000 as 3669 with a change in the coat of arms (they always seem to release
silly coats of arms for the US, and update them later.) Another running example
in 2000 is 3668, Knight's training ground (features a jousting dummy), which I
first bought in 1995. (Most of the other knights sets I remember from 95--it had
a Sherwood Forest theme-- are gone now.)
In the 1993 catalog Playmobil was still featuring the original Space sets
introduced in 1981. It also featured 3450, the original US-released giant castle
set, of the same vintage. It's really still around, but somewhat reconfigured.
In fact, the whole castle lineup in the 1993 catalog (with the exception of
3329) is twelve years old!
These are the exceptions, not the rule. Probably it comes from their popularity!
In the past five years there's been more flux.
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| (...) I'd say it depends on a lot of things: - the store's new/old policies - the location - the size of the store For example, large chain stores, like TRU, keep inventories of their stores, and "regroup" their old stock. Hence, if there's less (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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